Narrow and Wide Gates

Matthew 7
13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Reference to Pearce Preface)

Wow I felt kind of lost after reading the first chapter in The Crack in the Comic Egg… As I plodded through the material, thought I wow this kind of makes sense, I think! The relationship between the between our minds and the world and the concept of mirroring are certainly theories that need to be considered. I like when Pearce says “reality is not a fixed entity” (5) and that events do not just happen – everything for a reason…
Pearce goes on to discuss that basic assumptions actively direct out percepts and individuals have been trained look at life, situations, and circumstance with realism. But let’s consider Pearce‘s thinking that “A change of world view and can the world viewed. I lOVED this idea probably because I could learn from its practice.

As you consider all of the material that floods our mind each day we choose to ignore, magnify or expand upon those items that we feel passionate about… We may need to take a more active part in shaping our present and future. As with many of the ideas we have explored thus far we are part of the equation.
Ah- ha! Pearce talks about illumination… To me this is the ah-ha (Eureka) moment - the moment when you see things for what they are and you achieve understanding. Autistic thinking is non-logical whimsical thinking. Again I love this idea! Moving from something being in-probable to probable and not allowing the mirroring that has taken place to influence us and not be influenced by logic.

Chapter 3 was the most interesting to me perhaps a eureka moment! I did take pause when Pearce said that we badger our children into looking a situation objectively. Proverbs 22:6 Train [a] a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Again I stopped when I read that we show children what to do and reward them when the correct behavior is portrayed... The mirroring period is vital to development as witnessed in the feral children highlighted in the book – fascinating stuff!!

After I finished reading… I thought “We can’t always be looking for cracks in the cosmic egg can we or should we?”